by Q&Q Staff

The University of Guelph honours the Bookshelf’s Barb and Doug Minett

Almost five decades after founding the Bookshelf – the inimitable and ever-evolving Guelph, Ontario, bookstore/café/cinema/live-music venue – Barb and Doug Minett are being awarded honorary doctor of laws degrees this June by the University of ... Read More »

April 19, 2018

Emma Healey’s diagnosis of a visual deficiency lent her a new perspective on life and poetry

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Emma Healey’s sophomore poetry collection, Stereoblind, is the result of six years spent wrestling with the illusion of simplicity, an illusion that came to light in part as a result of the poet’s own diagnosis ... Read More »

April 12, 2018

Terese Marie Mailhot: how speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences

By Q&Q Staff

In a public interview recently, a journalist asked me what I meant in the final pages of my memoir, Heart Berries, when I proclaimed myself “untouchable.” A room full of authors gasped audibly at my ... Read More »

April 5, 2018

Take Q&Q’s 2018 salary survey

By Q&Q Staff

Welcome to Quill & Quire’s 2018 survey of the publishing workplace. It has been five years since our last survey, and our goal is to provide a useful, up-to-date statistical snapshot of working life in ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Book news

Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”

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About a year ago, while I was passionately immersed in getting the manuscript of my latest book, The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It, to my publisher, I ... Read More »

February 12, 2018

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming March titles

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Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. The Wolves of Winter, Tyrell Johnson (Simon & Schuster Canada) The ... Read More »

January 30, 2018

Spring Preview 2018: Books for Young People

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Picture books The Funeral Matt James (Groundwood Books, April) Matt James has been illustrating picture books for 10 years. He’s always wanted to write one, but felt his ideas were more notions than fully realized ... Read More »

January 26, 2018

2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks

By Q&Q Staff

Librarians, book bloggers, and booksellers weigh in with their favourite children's books of the year. Grandfather and the Moon Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, ill.; Shelley Tanaka, trans. Groundwood Books The graphic novel Grandfather and the ... Read More »

December 12, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: editors’ kidlit and YA picks

By Q&Q Staff

Quill & Quire’s Books for Young People editors share their favourite children's titles of 2017. Town Is by the Sea Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, ill. Groundwood Books “And deep down under that sea, my ... Read More »

December 12, 2017

2017 Year in Review: New booksellers share experiences from their first year behind the counter

By Q&Q Staff

Queen Books, Toronto We’re getting to know some regulars already, and it’s been fun and interesting to see different reading tastes and get to know what works and what doesn’t. What’s been really nice is ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

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The University of Guelph honours the Bookshelf’s Barb and Doug Minett

Emma Healey’s diagnosis of a visual deficiency lent her a new perspective on life and poetry

Terese Marie Mailhot: how speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences

Take Q&Q’s 2018 salary survey

Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming March titles

Spring Preview 2018: Books for Young People

2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks

2017 Books of the Year: editors’ kidlit and YA picks

2017 Year in Review: New booksellers share experiences from their first year behind the counter

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